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GQ Travel Tribes: The Healthy Traveller

Several new breeds of global nomads are blurring the lines between travelling for business or pleasure. GQ have teamed up with Pullman Hotels to decode these globetrotting tribes. Today, it's: The Healthy Traveller

How to spot him

Wherever he is in the world, The Healthy Traveller has fitness and wellbeing front and centre in his mind. His packed travel schedule means that he has no choice but to look after himself. For him, world travel is no excuse not to follow the lifestyle principles he sticks to at home. He's run marathons in all the world's major cities, his smartwatch tracks his fitness 24/7 and he likes to mix up his workouts. Away from home, you'll find him doing TRX suspension training in his hotel suite or running in the nearest park. To keep him at his sharpest, he puts his trust in a trainer and nutritionist, someone like Sarah Hoey. Hoey is behind Pullman Hotels' new wellbeing programmes, which are designed to focus on regeneration, energy, balance and detoxification. Back at the hotel post-workout, The Healthy Traveller rewards himself with the "Active Breakfast", which is rich in proteins and carbohydrates designed to boost energy. If he's feeling especially motivated, he'll alternate bespoke workouts in the gym with holistic wellbeing sessions and in-room yoga or exercise programmes, which are all available to stream on the in-room television.

Where he stays

The Healthy Traveller prefers to stay somewhere he can enjoy trainer and nutritionist Sarah Hoey's programme in full. That includes:

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Where he swims

A session in the pool is one of the best ways to stay fit and it's even better if that pool is spacious and comes with an extraordinary view. Here are some of the most spectacular public pools in the world:

1. Sporting Club Beach, BeirutThis Sixties swimming pool is a Beirut institution and still a meeting point for Lebanese artists and intellectuals. There's no better way to while away a day than to stop by for a swim, grab kibbeh or labneh for lunch, look out to sea and watch the planes overhead.

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2. Suada Club, IstanbulOnly open in the summer, this surprising pool looks like a huge barge floating on the island of Galatasaray in the middle of the Bosphorus between Ortaköy and Bebek. Expect Istanbul's moneyed cool kids to be swimming alongside you.

3. Bondi Icebergs Club, SydneyA temple to watersports since 1929, this photogenic outdoor pool is open to amateurs all year round. Drop in when you're in Sydney. It's right at the end of Bondi Beach.

4. Piscine Pontoise, ParisAn art deco swimming pool in the Quartier Latin dating back to 1933, it's famous for the blue wooden changing rooms that ring the pool. The pool is on the city's protected historical monuments list and is often used as a location for film shoots.

His GQ tips

Pullman's Sarah Hoey has developed an "Active Breakfast" that's available now in most of the Pullman Hotels around the world. Here, GQ brings you the "Energy Boost Active Breakfast", which you can make at home. It's designed to aid digestion and keep you on top form all day long:

1. Start with:Warm water and lemon juice

2. Follow with: Orange juice with ½ lemon, two slices of ginger and ½ cucumber, sprinkled with a teaspoon of saffron.